Amy Jenkins Quotes
They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.
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What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
